Search for missing Lyttelton police station employee led to discovery of 3 constables' bodies
According to police, a tracking device worn by the missing employee directed search teams to the Hennops River in Centurion, where they discovered the bodies of the three constables, along with a fifth unidentified body.
The scene where the car carrying the three missing police officers had gone off the N1 highway crashing into the Hennops River below. Picture: Jacques Nelles/EWN
BLOEMFONTEIN - The search for a missing employee from Centurion’s Lyttelton police station led to the discovery of three constables' bodies, including Constable Keamogetswe Buys.
Buys was laid to rest on Saturday.
According to police, a tracking device worn by the missing employee directed search teams to the Hennops River in Centurion, where they discovered the bodies of the three constables, along that of the missing employee and a fifth unidentified body.
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Buys had been travelling to Limpopo from Free State with fellow officers Cebekhulu Linda and Boipela Senoge when their vehicle plunged into the Hennops River in April.
Speaking at Buys’s funeral on Saturday in Bloemfontein, National Police Commissioner General Fannie Masemola said the breakthrough would not have been possible without the tracking signal that led them to the river.
“The search went on until we found all the three constables and later the car, and after a day or two, Buys was found the next day, and the rear part of the car a day, thereafter.
"The last report indicate that Constable Senohe was driving, Linda was on the left, and Buys was in the rear, hence the two were found first and she was found last.”